The Anti-enlightenment Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anti-enlightenment Tradition write by Zeev Sternhell. This book was released on 2010-01-01. The Anti-enlightenment Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth century. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, far earlier than most historians. The thinkers belonging to the Anti-Enlightenment (a movement originally identified by Friederich Nietzsche) represent a perspective that is antirational and that rejects the principles of natural law and the rights of man. Sternhell asserts that the Anti-Enlightenment was a development separate from the Enlightenment and sees the two traditions as evolving parallel to one another over time. He contends that J. G. Herder and Edmund Burke are among the real founders of the Anti-Enlightenment and shows how that school undermined the very foundations of modern liberalism, finally contributing to the development of fascism that culminated in the European catastrophes of the twentieth century.
Enemies of the Enlightenment
Enemies of the Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enemies of the Enlightenment write by Darrin M. McMahon. This book was released on 2002. Enemies of the Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Darrin M. McMahon shows that well before the French Revolution, enemies of the Enlightenment were warning that the secular thrust of modern philosophy would give way to horrors of an unprecedented kind. Greeting 1789, in turn, as the realization of their worst fears, they fought the Revolution from its onset, profoundly affecting its subsequent course. The radicalization - and violence - of the Revolution was as much the product of militant resistance as any inherent logic."--BOOK JACKET.
Reclaiming the Enlightenment
Reclaiming the Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reclaiming the Enlightenment write by Stephen Eric Bronner. This book was released on 2004. Reclaiming the Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1947 Horkheimer and Adorno connected the Enlightenment with totalitarianism. Since when the Left has drifted into the language and imagery of the European Counter-Enlightenment, the movement against 1776 and 1789. Bronner sets out to reclaim the heritage of progressive politics.
The Moral Foundations of Politics
The Moral Foundations of Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moral Foundations of Politics write by Ian Shapiro. This book was released on 2012-10-30. The Moral Foundations of Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put forward by utilitarians, Marxists, and theorists of the social contract. Next he turns to the anti-Enlightenment tradition that stretches from Edmund Burke to contemporary post-modernists. In the last part of the book Shapiro examines partisans and critics of democracy from Plato’s time until our own. He concludes with an assessment of democracy’s strengths and limitations as the font of political legitimacy. The book offers a lucid and accessible introduction to urgent ongoing conversations about the sources of political allegiance.
Darkened Enlightenment
Darkened Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Darkened Enlightenment write by Tim Delaney. This book was released on 2020-04-27. Darkened Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The premise of Darkened Enlightenment is to highlight the fact that there currently exist a number of socio-political forces that have the design, or ultimate consequence, of trying to extinguish the light of reason and rationality. The book presents a critique of modernity and provides a socio-political and cultural analysis of world society in the early twenty-first century. Specifically, this analysis examines the deterioration of democracy, human rights, and rational thought. Key features include a combination of academic analysis that draws on numerous and specific examples of the growing darkness that surrounds us along with a balanced practical, everyday-life approach to the study of the socio-political world we live in through the use of popular culture references and featured boxes. The general audience will also be intrigued by these same topics that concern academics including: a discussion on the meaning of "fake news"; attacks on the media and a declaration of the news media as the "enemy of the people"; the rise of populism and nationalism around the world; the deterioration of freedom and human rights globally; the growing economic disparity between the rich and the poor; attempts to devalue education; a growing disbelief in science; attacks on the environment; pseudoscience as a by-product of unreasoned and irrational thinking; the political swamp; the power elites and the deep state; and the variations of Big Business that impact our daily lives. This book will make a great contribution to such fields as sociology, philosophy, political science, environmental science, public administration, economics, psychology, and cultural studies.
